PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION

Professional Health Care Communication



Professional Health Care Communication

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to write about health care communications and define the relevance of effective personal health care communication with other health care professionals, clients and patients. This paper also discusses that how relevant is the effective professional helath care communication with the health care outcomes, and what is the contribution of effective personal and professional health care communication to health care outcomes. This paper also discusses the theories and principles of therapeutic communication health care settings for the health care professional.

Health Care Communication

Health communication is a relatively new, but increasingly significant specialty that encompasses both mass and interpersonal communication. It formally originated in the mid1 970s when members of an International Communication Association interest group adopted the label “health communication”. According to Atkin and Marshall (1996), health communication has developed rapidly in response to growing pragmatic and policy interests, particularly in the public health agencies of the federal government and among private sector health care providers (p. 479). In addition, public interest in health information has increased as the rise in health related media content has increased. Health communication is interwoven in almost everyone's life.

As Sharf (1993) asserted, messages about health and medicine have become regular features in daily news broadcasts and other popular media (p. 35). Most individuals have at least one memorable story about a health experience, although the stories usually entail “misunderstandings, and mystifications, inability to access information, lack of socioemotional support, [or] feelings of not being in control”. According to the office of disease prevention and health promotion, “Health care communication can be considered as an art which involves informing, individual motivation, and influencing, institutional and public audiences about some productive health issues (Alexander 2000). There are many benefits of proper health communication like the prevention from disease, health promotion, improving the community individual's quality of life and health.

Define the Relevance of Effective Personal Health Care Communication with Other Health Care Professionals, Clients and Patients

Personal health care communication is relevant to professional, clients and patient's health care in such a way that both the personal and professional health care is important in the field of health care. There are different techniques for the health care communication, and they have their different importance in the field (Jones 2009). There is great importance of effective personal and professional health care for clients and patients. If, the communication is not good then it can result in poor patient. Thus, the personal health care is very much relevant to the professional, client and patient's health care communication.

Relevancy of Effective Professional Health Care Communications to Health Outcomes

There is a great relevance of effective health care communications to health outcomes. There is great importance of effective health care for health care professionals, patients and the other resources providing the health care. According to a health care professional, the main problem in health care profession is the delivery of effective health care profession which as a ...